The repository contains 71 quotes in the category “Adversity.”
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We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
If life had only good things, you wouldn’t be able to appreciate the good things.
Bobby Valentine
1950 —
Only when you’ve been in the deepest valley can you know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.
President Richard M. Nixon
1913 — 1994
If I were to get to heaven, I would probably find an exhausted guardian angel who had been getting me out of trouble all these years.
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
1880 — 1968
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
104? B.C. — 1065
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
Helen Keller
1880 — 1968
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Kings have long arms, but misfortune longer; let none think themselves out of reach.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard
1881 — 1955
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
104? B.C. — 1065
If you are having trouble keeping your head above water, you probably aren’t on your toes.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
1911 —
Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more courage to know when to let go and then do it.
Ann Landers
1918 — 2002
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
106 A.D. — 43
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
1874 — 1936
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